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25 Céntimos Benicasim
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benicasim |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Benicasim 25 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Benicasim 25 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | El Cajero, (Translation: The Cashier,) |
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Benicasim — a small coastal municipality in Castellón province — issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War because Republican Spain had effectively run out of small change. The centimos disappeared almost immediately from circulation after the war began in 1936, hoarded, melted, or simply lost to disrupted supply chains. Hundreds of municipalities across the Republican zone responded by printing their own emergency scrip, and this 25 céntimos note is one such response.
The square format is notable — most municipal emergency issues of this period ran rectangular. At 45 × 45 mm it is among the smallest pieces in the entire Spanish Civil War local emission corpus.